teaching Archives - greenforecast: for a better world

The video above is an example of how we teach our children (this is designed for children) certain values through story telling. Here’s Paul Bunyan getting an axe for Christmas and then proceeding to power-chop forests. He is praised for his ability to generate farm land to bring urban development. In our modern world of…

Are environmental values innate or are they acculturated? If we had been born a native american 300 years ago, we’d likely have sat around camp fires late at night and heard stories about the great animal spirits, or about the gods that watch over the harvest or the motions of the celestial bodies. We would…